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Here is the final installment of the 30s Sampler Block of the Month. I hope you have enjoyed following along and collecting the patterns for this special quilt. Just so you know, the patterns will be free for the month of April 2018 (and May too, since my post is coming to you a couple weeks late).

At the end of May, 2018 all of the individual monthly patterns will be removed from my website. Later in the summer (once I have printed patterns in stock) the pattern will go back in the store for sell as a complete pattern. What that means is this is the last chance you have to get any months you are missing. Going forward the only way to get the patterns will be as a complete set. (Sorry, no exceptions.)

If you have been sewing along you might be nearly finished with your quilt. I would dearly love to see a picture of your project so I have started a new Facebook page. It’s a place just for Block of the Month news and pictures. You may request to join here.

Have fun sewing the final 5 blocks!

My quilt is being quilted at the moment. Photos and finishing up tips coming soon!

The patterns for the Month 9 blocks of the 30s Sampler are ready to download. They will be available for free on my website until April 1, 2018.

Month 9 blocks

We are nearing the end of this block of the month program – next month is the last set of patterns! You can expect the patterns to remain on my website until May 1, 2018. At that time the individual monthly patterns will be removed and later in the summer the complete pattern set will be made available for purchase as a printed pattern. So take a few minutes to look through your patterns to make sure you have what you need.

I have something to show you – a picture of my 30s Sampler! It’s not finished yet because of course this is only month 8 of 10, but I thought you’d enjoy seeing how it’s coming along. Remember, I’ve been making my sample with the panels completed in Back Basting Applique. I’ve used one Farm Life Panel and one Flower Garden panel. But you could use two the same if you wanted to.

30s Sampler, Months 1-8 with alternating applique blocks.

Isn’t that fun?

If you are just tuning in this Block of the Month has custom sized blocks to fit alternating with the pre-printed blocks designed in the 1930s by Ruby Short McKim. The blocks were reproduced in 2016 pre-printed on fabric by Paintbrush Studio Fabrics. If you missed out, I still have some in inventory. Click here. Choose one of many options for completing your animal or flower blocks. For example, applique them, like I did. Or, embroider them, or tint them with crayon first, them embroider them. Or paint them.

If you’d like to try Back Basting Applique check out my book on the subject here. If you order the book from my website I will include one free Farm or Flower block so you can try back basting without the worry of using up one of the blocks from your panel. Just put a note in the order so I know you want the free block. (The block design will be a random selection, sorry, no choosing.)

But I know what you really want, the patterns for Month 8! Here are the blocks for Month 8. Don’t let that green and lavender block intimidate you. It’s looks hard but I think you’ll find it easy enough.To get your patterns for Month 8 click here.

The new set of 30s Sampler Blocks are ready for you to hop over and pick up in my online store.

Month 6 Blocks

This month you’ll notice that one of the blocks is paper pieced (Block 21 in the upper left corner).

You may use any method you’d like to paper piece or foundation piece the block but if you feel the same way I do about ripping all that paper out you may want to try Freezer Paper Foundation Piecing. It’s the only way I paper piece!

I’ve included a link on the Block of the Month page on my website to a pdf with instructions. I plan to post a tutorial later in the month but I’m out of the office for the next two weeks while helping my mom after knee replacement surgery). But I got your patterns ready before leaving town!

Month 5 marks the halfway point of the 30s Sampler BOM! To celebrate all previous patterns are half off for the month of November only. So stock up on any of the patterns you’ve missed!

The four new patterns for November are posted and ready for you to download. Click here to get the patterns. This time there is a sheet of templates. Make sure you turn the scaling off on your printer so they print accurately.

30s Sampler Month 5

Just tuning in to the 30s Sampler BOM? Get all the details and see previous blocks here.

Presenting the third installment of my 10 month Block of the Month. Starting today, Sept 1, 2017, the patterns for four blocks will be free for one month after which they will got into my online store where they are available for $5.

Blocks for Month 3

You may wonder how I selected the order of the blocks. There is absolutely no rhyme or reason to how the four blocks are grouped each month.

I just started sewing blocks.

When a block was finished I put it on my design wall so I could monitor fabric placement – my goal being that participants could make the quilt with a fat quarter bundle of Vintage 30s Ruby’s Treasures (plus background fabric). I didn’t want to use up one fabric too early in the process leaving none for later blocks.

Since I am alternating my pieced blocks with the appliqued Ruby’s Farm Life and Ruby’s Flower Garden panel blocks I noticed that the green fabrics were dominating so I became more selective about which pieced blocks included green.

Once a block was tested I sent the rough draft directions to a graphic artist (my very own daughter Sarah!) and they got numbered in the order I sent them.

That’s why a group of four blocks has no specific connection.

I’m sewing my blocks together in numerical order but, of course, you may sew your blocks in any order you’d like.

If you have been collecting patterns but haven’t begun to sew yet this might be the perfect month to start because the patterns are relatively simple.

Before you head over to get this month’s patterns read this:

Note: The system for downloading the patterns has been updated. Effective this month when you click on the link you will be directed to my online store. Simply click on the item to put the patterns in your shopping cart then check out following the prompts. Since it’s free payment information will not be collected. Once completed a page will pop up with a link to download the pattern. Click on that link and your pattern should download automatically. You will also receive an email with the same link.

The reason for the change is that I found it was taking me a long time to get the patterns posted due to having to go back to previous social media postings to change the links once the free month was over. This way I will be able to change it in one place which means you will get the patterns on time.

It’s time! It’s Block of the Month time! The first installment of my 30’s Sampler Block of the Month is now available. Download it for free for the month of July. On August 1st it will move to the online store where it will be available to purchase for $5.